BioShock - the next big game before Crysis

[Fink]

Anyone got their copies yet? Im hoping mine is on the door mat when I get in tonight.

[wiiksie]

Isn't it out tomorrow? Should get my PC version manyana from postie.

[Fink]

aye its out tomorrow but most internet mailorder companies deliver early (and woolies who sold pes6 off the shelf early much to the dismay of other retailers and microsoft) .

[Sweeney287]

Anyone got their copies yet? Im hoping mine is on the door mat when I get in tonight.

 

Hopefully. My copy got posted from Game on late Tuesday evening.

[Strontium]

I preordered from GAME yesterday afternoon and was woken at 7:45 this morning by the postie delivering it, so mine deffo arrived.

 

Of course, I can't play the game yet cos I need a new graphics card, but still.

 

(Actually probably just as well I can't play it yet, if rumours of the Internet authentication server crashing are true. GG hamfisted copyright protection systems!)

[Sweeney287]

Only played it for a couple of hours so far, but it's fucking ace.

[Fink]

I preordered from GAME yesterday afternoon and was woken at 7:45 this morning by the postie delivering it, so mine deffo arrived.

 

Of course, I can't play the game yet cos I need a new graphics card, but still.

 

(Actually probably just as well I can't play it yet, if rumours of the Internet authentication server crashing are true. GG hamfisted copyright protection systems!)

 

Yeah been reading about that - sounds liek a shocker.

[smokinsteve]

Bought the 360 version of this and spent 3-4 hours on it last night with the sound up and the lights off, along with a few beers. And I must say I enjoyed it....GFX are top notch and from what I hear, the story gets very deep....

 

I shall have a few more hours on this mofo tonight.

[Rex Banner]

it looks so sweet I cant wait to get it

[Sut]

Ace game.

[RedKnight]

It's a beautiful game but it's plot is takes a terrible downturn. Waste of an excellent premise.

[wiiksie]

It's a beautiful game but it's plot is takes a terrible downturn. Waste of an excellent premise.

I must admit, once you get past the really well done art deco underwater city thing, and the fantastic plasmid idea, it did underwhelm me a bit. But I'm only a couple of hours in so I'll wait and see...

[RedKnight]

I must admit, once you get past the really well done art deco underwater city thing, and the fantastic plasmid idea, it did underwhelm me a bit. But I'm only a couple of hours in so I'll wait and see...

 

Trust me, when you've played the whole game you'll be as annoyed at the missed chance and waste of premise as me.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

This is the game that made me realise that I must buy a 360.

[Sut]

I finished it last night and felt slightly cheated. I think I may have been expecting a bigger game.

[Eldrich]

I finished it last night and felt slightly cheated. I think I may have been expecting a bigger game.

 

Same here. I finished it last night. I think it has suffered from too much hype. It is a fantastic game, its just that it has been raved about being the best thing since sliced bread and nothing can live up to the amount of hype that it has received.

[Nick]

This review pretty funny and accurate

 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1394-Zero-Punctuation-BioShock

[wiiksie]

This review pretty funny and accurate

 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1394-Zero-Punctuation-BioShock

That is excellent. Fucking funny too.

[silverlining]

It's ace.

 

Played it through again to get the "nice" ending (ie not harvesting any Little Sisters).

 

Anyone releasing games should take a look at this to see where the bar has been set. The atmosphere, plot, attention to detail. It's fabulous. The sheer ambition may not quite be matched when you play it all the way through, but at least they had some.

 

OK, it's not perfect, and if you strip away all the gloss, what you have left is a decent FPS with OK combat. But that misses the point. You DON'T strip it all away. What you play is the whole package.

 

It's a great achievement and a wonderful vision.

 

Would that all games aimed this high.

[Rex Banner]

just finished it and and absolutely loved it. For my personal tastes it was almost perfect, I love the look and feel of it and the powers and weapons were great. Class class game.

I played it saving the little sisters I might play it again in a while Harvesting them does it change the game much?

[Nick]

Nope, just the movie at the end. There's 3 endings but two are almost identical but for the tone of the narrator. Ones a "happy" ending which you saw, ones a "sad" ending if you forget or harvest a few and ones a "bad/angry" ending if you harvest them all. You can see all the endings on youtube if you can't be arsed to play through it again.

 

I'm glad I finished it because the end levels are good and there's an explanation. I stopped playing because I'd become bored of the middle levels and the story line.

[LEF]

I enjoyed it. It does get a bit repetitive after half way through and it is pretty easy but apart from that it was a top game. I got all the achievements apart from 2 in 1 play. I also only got the nice ending i couldn’t bring myself to kill the sisters.

 

Iv just got Medal of Honor Airborne and I managed to get the beta version of COD4 which is quite good.

[Uncle_Meat]

Just managed to snaffle a copy of both Bioshock and MOH Airborne. Both excellent-looking games. Loving the Fritz Lang atmosphere of Bioshock so far, the only downside is that it does give me the feeling I could do with lashing out on a better video card.

 

Both games run OK on my 7600, but they could run so much better with an 8800...

[Sut]

If you don't already have it, it's here for £18.

[Strontium]

Will it be out on PS3?

 

 

PS3 version is out next Friday.

 

Finally got a new 3D card for my PC and started playing this, and I'm really liking it. Not perfect by any means, but very atmospheric. Lovely stuff.